During the monitoring visit, the conditions of accommodation, food, medical and preventive care for inmates, libraries and rooms for long meetings with close relatives were examined.

The study revealed that the colony underwent a large-scale overhaul, including the construction of a sports ground for inmates to practice sports (vorkout), new shower rooms, and the renovation of the colony's kitchen with new equipment.

As part of the monitoring, collective and individual meetings with convicts were also held.

No complaints of torture were received at the meetings. In the appeals it was noted to provide practical assistance in improving conditions in the rooms for long meetings with close relatives.

The regional representative of the Ombudsman made recommendations to the administration of the institution on the shortcomings identified in the course of the monitoring and on the appeals received from inmates.

On the same day, the regional representative took part in a meeting of the commission to determine the criteria for recognizing a convicted person as a reformed or non-reformed inmate in a settlement colony.

Also, the regional representative visited convict J.K., who was hospitalized from the settlement colony to the surgical department of the medical association of Kungrad district.

It was found that the convict had serious health problems, and on the basis of the relevant recommendations of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, on the same day the patient was given a referral for treatment at the Republican Specialized Medical Center for Oncology and Radiology in the city of Nukus, where he was hospitalized, and the patient's health was taken under the constant supervision of the regional representative.

Press Service of the Authorized Person of the Oliy Majlis for Human Rights (Ombudsman)